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Review of W. Grzebalska's book "he gender of the Warsaw Uprising".
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Right from the beginning, the subject of the Warsaw Uprising was often manipulated or even entirely erased from public discourse under the Stalinist regime. It was only after the liberalization of culture and the easing of censorship-related repressions that the said topic returned in literature. The paper focuses on the censorship bureau’s approach to the image of the Uprising presented by writers. Moreover, it attempts to specify – on the basis of specific examples – the kind of content that was accepted, rejected or amended. The juxtaposition of censors’ documents and the content of the published works allows for the examination of the depth of censors’ interventions and their methods of manipulating historical facts. Those areas of special interest include: presentation of the division among the insurgents who were supposed to belong either to the brave ordinary soldiers or the passive leadership, as well as the attitude towards the People’s Army, the First Polish Army, the Home Army or the Red Army, with special regard for its passiveness during the Uprising.
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2016
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vol. 37
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issue 7
139-162
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Right from the beginning, the subject of the Warsaw Uprising was often manipulated or even entirely erased from public discourse under the Stalinist regime. It was only after the liberalization of culture and the easing of censorship-related repressions that the said topic returned in literature. The paper focuses on the censorship bureau’s approach to the image of the Uprising presented by writers. Moreover, it attempts to specify – on the basis of specific examples – the kind of content that was accepted, rejected or amended. The juxtaposition of censors’ documents and the content of the published works allows for the examination of the depth of censors’ interventions and their methods of manipulating historical facts. Those areas of special interest include: presentation of the division among the insurgents who were supposed to belong either to the brave ordinary soldiers or the passive leadership, as well as the attitude towards the People’s Army, the First Polish Army, the Home Army or the Red Army, with special regard for its passiveness during the Uprising.
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In Polish feature films about the Warsaw Uprising there are no women. They of course appear as nurses, civilians or liaison officers. But they are always part of the background, seen, but not looking, symbolic in their presence, and never the active heroines; always serving, and never independent or autonomous. If they are the heroines of the drama, then they are part of someone else’s drama, and are not given a voice of their own. Their narratives and accounts of life, even everyday life, are left unsaid, hidden behind grand and epic narratives of the heroes. The article is about women’s "micro-narratives", the memories of women who lived in Warsaw and participated in the Warsaw Uprising in 1944. The memories give us a chance to see the Uprising in a different light, one that includes the women’s perspective and experience of the Uprising. Women's accounts, due to their graphic nature and their uniqueness appear to be ready-made but not used film scenarios.
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The following is the text of Rafał Marszałek’s address during the international conference on "The Warsaw Uprising in the Context of Polish-German Relations" (Warsaw, 30 March – 1 April, 2007). Marszałek argues that there is no room for an "absolute enemy" in the selected works by Andrzej Wajda, Kazimierz Kutz and Andrzej Munk of the so-called "Polish Film School" and that the films are free of the hatred to the Germans as invaders and occupiers. What emerge from the films are a toothless enemy and then a bodiless enemy. The thesis is exemplified in "Canal" – the death of the Warsaw insurgents is portrayed in a symbolic language; in "Ostinato lugubre", the second part of "Eroica", in which the Germans (as enemy) are not the demonic personification of oppression; in "The Dog" (part of "Cross of Valor") – the hero saves the life of the dog guarding inmates at an Auschwitz death camp; in "Speed", one of few war films in the history of cinema that does without the character of a (German) enemy. Marszałek points out that the "dematerialization" of the enemy flows from the special (both psychological and moral) instinct of self-preservation rather than forgiveness.
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The purpose of the article is to expose the civilian experience of the Warsaw Uprising, the event traditionally connected with the heroic military myth of the Polish nation. The main source is a non-published diary of Zofia Charytańska, ordinary citizen of Warsaw, who records the everyday life in the German- and later Russian-occupied city areas. Her diaries show the civilian perspective on the 1944 military operation, indicating at the same time the anxiety and guilt of an uninvolved observer. This individual experience is submerged in the broader historical and ideological context. It further extends the narrative about Praga, the city district east of the Vistula river, which did not participate in the Uprising and was “liberated” by the Soviet Army.
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The article describes the motif of women and war in three novels by Sylwia Chutnik (born 1979): Kieszonkowy atlas kobiet (Pocket Atlas of Women) 2008, Dzidzia (Diddums) 2009 and Cwaniary (The Hustlers) 2012. Drawing from the context of modern Western studies, reflections on these works concern the relationship between gender and war, assuming that it grants an active and heroic role to men while putting women in the role of civilian victims, and in doing so, it consolidates the traditional social hierarchy. Even though the history of war contradicts such stereotypes and abounds in evidence of women’s courage, both as civilians and soldiers, the society – according to scholars – seems to reproduce wartime division of gender roles as justification for the cultural hierarchy of gender. This pushes women’s experience and memory of war to the margins of collective memory. Sylwia Chutnik portraits the women who participated in the Warsaw Uprising and depicts their lives after the war, rediscovering the (in)ability to build a women’s tradition of combat and to pass their wartime stories to daughters and granddaughters. She also shows the forgotten women’s memory of the Uprising: the terrible suffering of civilians, who often rebelled against military decisions. In her understanding, this memory forms an undertone in Polish culture, and has only recently been acknowledged by the so-called oral history.
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The article presents a profile of Rev. prof. Jan Salamucha, with a particular emphasis on his heroic attitude and death in the Warsaw Uprising (deceased 11 August 1944).
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Artykuł omawia sylwetkę ks. prof. Jana Salamuchy a w szczególności jego postawę i bohaterską śmierć w trakcie powstania warszawskiego (zginął 11 sierpnia 1944 r.).
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The Warsaw Uprising was a major World War II operation organized by the Polish resistance Home Army. It was planned for 1 September 1944. The start of the uprising in Warsaw spurred social resistance against the Nazi occupiers – people from various backgrounds joined the fighting. Among them were people born in Szadek and in the surrounding commune. The names identified so far include Janusz Laube, Jerzy Laube, Stefan Laube, Anna Meylert, by marriage Nawrot, Bogdan Sztolc, and Mieczysław Nowak, who lived in Szadek in the interwar period. They all survived the dramatic time of occupation in the capital, except for Mieczysław Nowak, killed by KL Gross-Rosen. They fought in the ranks of the battalion “Sokół”, Group “Chrobry II” and Group “Żbik”, having earlier participated in conspiratorial activity of Szare Szeregi (wartime Polish Scouting Association) and NSZ.
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The article focuses on the poetry collection Budowałam barykadę (Building a barricade) by Anna Świrszczyńska, published in 1974, thirty years after the Warsaw Uprising, which is the theme of the volume. During the past three decades, the author worked out an essential style that was free of pathos, objective, and close to the colloquial speech, which proved to be the only possible way of speaking about such dramatic events as those lived and observed during the uprising when the author was a field nurse helping the insurrectionists. Thanks to its stylistic discipline, the short poems of Budowałam barykadę are the most durable poetic witness of the Warsaw Uprising.
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The article deals with the representations of history in contemporary Polish cinema. On the occasion of the 70th anniversary of the Warsaw Uprising, Jan Komasa released two fundamentally different films within one year. By an analysis focusing the context, the artistic product and the reception, the author intends to decode the different messages and reception offers. The intended reception is then contrasted to the real reception referring to the reactions in Polish and (in the case of Miasto 44) in German media.
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For a long time after 1945 there was no institution in Europe that would create a European forum for an ideological and intellectual exchange. There was no international tribunal to which one could appeal from unjust judgments and wrong political decisions. The Nuremberg Tribunal certainly did not play such a role. Therefore, the enormity of the crimes committed in Poland could not be submitted as a complaint or an appeal directly to an institution representing the international public opinion. As a result, Polish martyrdom — a gigantic sacrifice of the population of the capital city during the Warsaw Uprising — was ideologically managed more or less successfully by socialist humanism. Infatuationwith the Marxist ideology and fear for the inviolability of borders prevented people from noticing that Germany of the 1950s and 1960s was not only an imperialist peril and hotbed of revisionism, but also a European state seeking integration with other European countries, a state with a vision of common supranational European values. The prison and concentration camp literature in communist Poland was a very specific phenomenon. The sheer number of works by authors little known in the world of literature makes us think about the political context of using these texts.
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This paper explores the relations between the centre and the peripheries drawing on examples from war narratives and accounts from Warsaw suburban region. Narratives analyzed here belong all to ‘grassroot’ history (private diaries, monographies by non-professional historians, books published by small, local editorial presses, websites run by local institutions, visual symbols in towns’ space). Main problems addressed in the article are: are the centre and the suburbs described as binary oppositions or rather in terms of gradation? Do the narrators use the strategy of ‘mimicry’ or rather the one of ‘rebellion’ towards the centre? The paper concludes with pointing out three metaphors, which provide patterns to the centre–periphery relations in analyzed region: Warsaw as a volcano, as an empty circle and as a mountain or tower casting a long shadow.
Acta Medicorum Polonorum
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2015
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vol. 5
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issue 1
65-86
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Ewa Nowosielecka-Derus (1924–2000) przyszła na świat w majątku szlacheckim Nowosieleckich, herbu Jelita, w Wojtkowej. Po ukończeniu 7-klasowej Szkoły Powszechnej Żeńskiej im. św. Jadwigi w Dobromilu, kontynuowała naukę w Prywatnym Gimnazjum ss. Niepokalanek w Jarosławiu. Po wybuchu II wojny światowej uczestniczyła w tajnych kompletach realizowanych w Prywatnym Gimnazjum i Liceum Żeńskim ss. Niepokalanek, pod wezwaniem Matki Boskiej Częstochowskiej w Szymanowie pod Warszawą. Po złożeniu egzaminu maturalnego w 1942 r. kształciła się w Warszawskiej Szkole Pielęgniarstwa. Kurs ukończyła 25 lipca 1944 r. Ewa Nowosielecka brała czynny udział w powstaniu warszawskim jako łączniczka-sanitariuszka na Mokotowie. Służyła w batalionie „Olza”, wchodzącym w skład Pułku „Baszta” Armii Krajowej. Po upadku powstania wraz z rannymi, którymi się opiekowała, trafiła do obozu przejściowego w Pruszkowie. Została skierowana do transportu do KL Auschwitz-Birkenau, z którego uciekła. Przedostała się do rodziny do Krakowa. W lutym 1945 r. zgłosiła się do pracy w Szpitalu Obozowym Polskiego Czerwonego Krzyża w Oświęcimiu. Następnie rozpoczęła studia medyczne na Uniwersytecie i Politechnice we Wrocławiu, w 1949 r. uzyskała absolutorium, a w 1951 r. otrzymała dyplom Wydziału Lekarskiego Akademii Medycznej we Wrocławiu. W 1952 r. otrzymała tytuł doktora nauk medycznych. W 1954 r. uzyskała I, a w 1957 r. II stopień specjalizacji jako lekarz internista, specjalista chorób wewnętrznych. Zawodowo była związana z placówkami opieki medycznej w Bielawie, Bytomiu i Tarnowskich Górach
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Ewa Nowosielecka-Derus (1924–2000) was born at the Wojtkowa estate of the Nowosieleccy who bore the arms Jelita. After finishing the seventh and final year at Saint Jadwiga Public Girls’ School in Dobromyl she continued her education at Sisters’ of Immaculate Conception Private Gymnasium in Jarosławiec. After Second World War started, Nowosielecka-Dyrus took part in underground education at Sisters’ of Immaculate Conception Black Madonna of Częstochowa Private Girls’ Gymnasium and High School in Szymanów near Warsaw. After passing matura exam in 1942 she studied at Warsaw Nursing School. She finished the course on 25th of July, 1944. Ewa Nowosielecka took an active part in the Warsaw Uprising as a liaison/medic in Mokotów. She served in the “Olza” battalion of the “Baszta” regiment of Polish Home Army. After the Uprising was suppressed she, along with her patients ended up in a transition Camp in Pruszków from where she was to be transferred to the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp. However, she managed to escape the transport and get to her family in Kraków. In February 1945 she volunteered to work in the Polish Red Cross field hospital in Oświęcim. Afterwards, she started studying medicine at the Wrocław University and Technical University. She finished her studies in 1949, and in 1951 she got a diploma from the Doctor Department of the Medical School in Wrocław. In 1952 she was awarded the title of doctor of medicine In 1954 she got the first, and in 1957 her second degree of specialization in internal medicine as a internal diseases specialist. Professionally she was involved with health care units in Bielawa, Bytom and Tarnowskie Góry.
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The article focuses on the memory practices activated in Jarosław Marek Rymkiewicz’s Kinderszenen, an essay devoted to the Warsaw Uprising. The text refers to Klaus Theweleit’s Male Fantasies analyzing the language of male soldiers, and examines the work of the same linguistic logic which determines the way in which the events in the capital are presented. The Nazification of memory involves here the demonstration of obscenity of the uprising and recognizing it as constitutive to the national identity. The purpose of the text is to capture the relationship between shaping collective memory and creating “genogenic” imaginarium integrating the Polish community.
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Muranów, or about land clearing The article is a review of “Festung Warschau” by Elżbieta Janicka which maps the clash between the recently built monuments celebrating Jewish or Polish places of martyrdom from the times of Second World War. Janicka walks through the streets of the former Jewish neighbourhoods of Warsaw; she photographs and discusses the new plaques, crosses, monuments, and other forms of public marking of history on the buildings, squares and streets. She convincingly shows that the new historical commemorative signs of Polish martyrdom are often placed in the sites that were marked by Jewish resistance or suffering, and that the marks of Polish suffering are rarely linked materially to the site. The new monuments obstruct and hide the past presence of Warsaw Jews and, by submerging their past, create a new vision of ethnically cleansed history of Warsaw, especially in its relation to Second World War. The review applauds the book and rejects some of the criticism against it.
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The article tells the story of the making of a little-known Polish documentary shot in 1944 and 1945. The film depicts the fate of a group of children from Warsaw who were at a summer camp in Stoczek Lukowski when the Warsaw Uprising began.
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Where is our home? The story of a film The article tells the story of the making of a little-known Polish documentary shot in 1944 and 1945. The film depicts the fate of a group of children from Warsaw who were at a summer camp in Stoczek Lukowski when the Warsaw Uprising began.
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The author of this article interprets the "Kamienie na szaniec" by Aleksander Kamiński, using the methodology of new historicism and psychotraumatology. In particular, the attempt is put into answering the question whether the narrative of "Kamienie..." is the story of historiographical, ideological, and mythologising, or rather therapeutic and pedagogical aim. The analysis will also address other selected texts (like "Zośka and Parasol"), containing reports of experiencing traumatic events and overcoming the trauma caused by the September defeat and the Warsaw Uprising.
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The Warsaw Uprising in 1944 ended in defeat. However, amongst Poles, the memory of the battle fought by the capital remained extremely strong and affected later attitudes. It protected identity and helped to survive the period of Soviet subjugation. Symbols of this memory included the anchor (the sign of the Polish Underground State), uprising songs, graves and cemeteries, the passing on of the testimony of the insurgents’ heroism and patriotism to posterity, and participation in anniversary celebrations. Today, the next generation of young Poles are taking over the duty of remembrance from their parents and grandparents and even identifying with the past generation, recognising the tragic experiences as their own. However, they are increasingly shifting their focus to new areas resulting from cultural changes, caused above all by the onslaught of information technology and the virtual world. The memory of the Warsaw Uprising, however, because of its emotional nature, also remains present in contemporary political life. The author of this article discusses the transformations taking place in collective memory. He identifies new phenomena regarding modes of representation, as well as new roles of the Warsaw Uprising in public discourse.
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Powstanie Warszawskie w 1944 r. zakończyło się klęską. Jednak wśród Polaków pamięć o nim pozostała niezwykle silna, rzutując na późniejsze postawy mieszkańców stolicy i całej Polski. Chroniła tożsamość i pomogła przetrwać okres sowieckiego zniewolenia. Jej wyrazem były m.in.: utożsamianie się z Kotwicą – znakiem Polskiego Państwa Podziemnego, śpiewanie pieśni powstańczych, odwiedzanie grobów i cmentarzy, przekazywanie potomnym świadectwa bohaterstwa i patriotyzmu powstańców oraz uczestnictwo w obchodach rocznicowych. Obecnie kolejne pokolenia młodych Polaków przejmują od swoich rodziców i dziadków obowiązek pamięci, a nawet, utożsamiając się z przeszłą generacją, przyjmują tragiczne doświadczenia za własne. Jednak swoją aktywność przenoszą coraz częściej na nowe pola, powstałe w wyniku przemian kulturowych, spowodowanych przede wszystkim ofensywą technik informatycznych i ukształtowaniem się świata wirtualnego. Pamięć o Powstaniu Warszawskim, ze względu na jej wymiar emocjonalny, pozostaje także elementem współczesnego życia politycznego. Przedmiotem artykułu jest omówienie przemian zachodzących w pamięci zbiorowej, wskazanie nowych zjawisk związanych ze sposobami prezentowania historii, a także nowych ról Powstania Warszawskiego w dyskursie publicznym.
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